Disability Perspective Experience

2016

The Disability Perspective Experience at the Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities provides training from the point of view of families and self-advocates to college students studying health, public health, law, special education and other disciplines. Through discussions with families and self-advocates, students have the unique opportunity to discover and develop sensitivities to the complexities and challenges facing people with disabilities on a daily basis. As a result, students are better prepared as they become professionals in their chosen fields to serve families and work with self-advocates. Benefits of the Disability Perspective Experience: -Families and self-advocates are partners in training -Trainees gain awareness of family and self-advocate perspectives -Trainees translate the impact of a familys life on professional practice -Trainees integrate family and self-advocate perspectives into practice

Training Trainees

Education & Early Intervention

Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees)

None

State

N/A